Token fast planed in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]The organisation for the arrested and disappeared in Jaffna will hold a Satyagraha at Perumal Kovil in Jaffna town on Friday Nov. 14 said one of its spokesman today.

This is the third in the series of protest token fast and sit ins planned by the organisation.

Meanwhile the third secretary of the Australian High Commission Ms. Jane Ogge is currently on a visit to the peninsula mainly to study the human rights situation there.

She has met with the GA and the ICRC representatives.

She will have discussions with the leaders of the organisation for the arrested and disappeared in Jaffna and return to Colombo tomorrow.